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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minus 3 hours), a truck drove up and began pumping alcohol into the Viking II. Then came men in plastic suits to fill it with strong, corrosive hydrogen peroxide. The last fuel to enter the tanks was "lox" (liquid oxygen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: X Marks the Minute | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

...Newly mined U.S silver does not enter the free market. The U.S. Mint buys it at a subsidy price of 90.5? an ounce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Pieces of Silver | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

...feet for a while. Jobs as a mechanic in Vermont and Detroit and a brief love affair with his ex-secretary in Washington soon had him chinning himself on his own self-confidence. He would get a job as a teacher and he and Ellen would enter middle age with their human dignity and refurbished love intact. But meanwhile Ellen was going quietly insane. When he came to take her from her ancestral home and the in-laws he despised, she tried to choke him to death. Gregory went away "waiting for a direction, for the blasting and blinding miracle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poor Old John | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

Konrad Adenauer would be the new German Republic's first Chancellor. He will probably form a government next month in coalition with the Free Democrats; whether the Socialists would enter the coalition remained doubtful. As he viewed his victory Adenauer might feel some discomfort in the fact that just 30 years ago Germany launched another hopeful democratic experiment in the ill-fated Weimar Republic. U.S. occupation officers, pleased by the election's outcome, wished Adenauer luck; he would need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Eyes Right | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

Last week, the inevitable happened. Keady stomped out of a directors' meeting. "I am leaving U.S. Gypsum," he said. "Mr. Avery has decided to re-enter the active management of the company." Snapped Avery: "I have been operating head of the company since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: No. 12 | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

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